[Oe List ...] The miracle of becoming

[Isobel and Jim Bishop]

Dear  David, 

Thank you for the beauty in your poems.

With gratitude to you,

Isobel Bishop 


Isobel and  Jim Bishop
isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au





> On 27 Aug 2022, at 5:44 am, David Dunn via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> Two new, old poems.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> Becoming
> 
> As I watched the stars fall from the sky, 
> I knew instantly that heaven was gone forever. 
> Before dawn, when it had become clear 
> that far is near and beyond is within, 
> I was embraced by a Holy Mystery 
> the filled me with awe, 
> took my breath away, 
> and opened the floodgates of my heart. 
> Now when I listen to the silence, 
> and look past the brilliance of the sun, 
> trying to imagine before the beginning 
> and beyond the edge of everything, 
> I am certain that the becoming 
> we were called to be before time began 
> will be fulfilled in us today.
> 
> 
> Natural Miracles
> 
> Our struggle to become ourselves is an act of creation.
> Our engagement in life energizes human evolution.
> Our care for one another expands the universe.
> It is a natural miracle that 
> Being evokes tears of gratitude,
> silence offers a warm embrace
> and darkness invites us to music and dance.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> "Mystery, possibility, and the power to choose"
> 
> David Dunn
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